By Richard Sanders, coordinator, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) Please join us in exposing and opposing Canada’s largest arms exhibition, CANSEC 2009. The City of Ottawa has now agreed to host this international weapons show at the municipality’s…
War resister Cliff Cornell’s deportation delayed – more deportation dates in the new year
Whew. Cliff Cornell’s deportation date has been deferred until January 22, thanks to his lawyer, who moved fast and skillfully, and to all of you who wrote, called, and emailed Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. The deferral gives Cliff’s lawyer time…
Urgent: War Resisters need your support today!
On the day that Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning the sod at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, his government is forcibly deporting American war resister Clifford Cornell. Despite Mr. Harper’s pretensions as a patron of human…
Christmas lumps of coal for war resisters from Santa Harper
The War Resisters Support Campaign says that U.S. war resister Cliff Cornell has been told by Citizenship and Immigration Canada to leave Canada by Dec. 24, or face removal by force. Another war resister, Kimberly Rivera, will receive a decision…
The American-Made Insurgency in Afghanistan
by Chris Floyd, Global Research, December 16, 2008 The “Good War” in Afghanistan – the Bush-launched war that Barack Obama tells us we must fight and win – continues to deteriorate before our eyes. Just like every other operation in…
Pakistan’s Balkanization
A boy stands at the site of suspected U.S. drone attacks in the Janikhel tribal area in Bannu district of North West Frontier Province, Nov. 29, 2008. U.S. forces in Afghanistan have carried out at least 27 air strikes by…